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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">We are seeing the same issues with customer VPN/VOIP traffic having issues traversing to Verizon through Cogent. Here’s what appears to be their canned response.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">“Dear Cogent Customer,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The latency and/or packet loss that you are experiencing to this destination is due to occasional high traffic with Verizon. Our peering engineers are actively
working with Verizon to address this as quickly as possible.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Anybody heard any more details, or an ETA?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Outages [mailto:outages-bounces@outages.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mike Simkins<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 05, 2013 1:02 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> outages@outages.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [outages] Cogent peering issues in Chicago?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cogent appear to be having capacity issues with Verizon (AS701) in Chicago<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Mike <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 4 June 2013 15:39, Mike Tancsa <<a href="mailto:mike@sentex.net" target="_blank">mike@sentex.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There was an issue with Bell (AS577) to Cogent in Chicago yesterday as<br>
well (~ 14:15 to 17:20 GMT-4). I had a ticket open with Cogent and they<br>
told me the issue was on Bell's side. Not sure where the issue was<br>
ultimately.<br>
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---Mike<o:p></o:p></p>
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On 6/4/2013 10:19 AM, Linda Effinger Quinde wrote:<br>
> We're in Chicago, and we've been having sporadic issues with Cogent for several weeks. We're a cloud software provider with 1000+ clients nationwide, and the issue cropped up again on Friday afternoon for clients in Colorado and locations west. Cogent said
it was an unresolved peering issue with Qwest. Anyone else?<br>
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> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: Outages [mailto:<a href="mailto:outages-bounces@outages.org">outages-bounces@outages.org</a>] On Behalf Of Joseph Jackson<br>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 8:17 AM<br>
> To: Erich Kaiser; <a href="mailto:outages@outages.org">outages@outages.org</a><br>
> Subject: Re: [outages] Cogent peering issues in Chicago?<br>
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> InterNAP just sent out a notice saying that their cogent BGP peering was in admin down while cogent troublshoots a hardware issue. They don't list what POP market the issue is in though.<br>
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> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: Outages [mailto:<a href="mailto:outages-bounces@outages.org">outages-bounces@outages.org</a>] On Behalf Of Erich Kaiser<br>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 7:02 AM<br>
> To: <a href="mailto:outages@outages.org">outages@outages.org</a><br>
> Subject: [outages] Cogent peering issues in Chicago?<br>
><br>
> Anyone seeing sporadic issues with Cogent? I was unable to browse certain sites for about 6:52am to 6:58am, now things seem normal again.<br>
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<span class="hoenzb">Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400</span><br>
<span class="hoenzb">Sentex Communications, <a href="mailto:mike@sentex.net">mike@sentex.net</a></span><br>
<span class="hoenzb">Providing Internet services since 1994 <a href="http://www.sentex.net" target="_blank">
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